Pages

April 17, 2010

G11: Rays 6, Red Sox 5

With two outs in the seventh, Scutaro singled, Pedroia homered, Martinez singled, and Youkilis homered -- and it looked like the diehards who stuck around cold, damp Fenway might be rewarded.

But no. In the eighth, Lowell led off with a single and Mike Cameron walked, but Jeremy Hermida struck out and Scutaro popped to right. And Pedroia, Martinez, and Youkilis went in order on only nine pitches in the ninth.

An error by Cameron on an easy fly ball should have ended the top of the first. Instead, it left the door open for Tampa to torment Buchholz for 44 pitches and four unearned runs.

and your day is about to get better allan, after we light up shields here.

my day is getting better already. except i'm kind of pissed the $9 bottle of wine tastes putrid. i bought an $8 bottle that was amazing, so i expected a marked improvement. although, expecting anything good for that price is grasping at straws i guess.

In canada, you're strapped to find anything with alcohol outside of shoppers drug mart for less than $8.

$8 wine was KWV - some white from south africa or something. Not amazing, but definitely palatable. We also like gazela - $8 or $9 white portguese wine with a bit of carbonation in it. That one's only like 8% or 9% though. But its damn tasty.

My every day wine costs about $11 bottle. It doesn't seem like "good" wine to me - that is something I can't afford on a daily basis - but I really enjoy it. Pelee Island Pinot Noir. I really like their reds.

Mets Cards in the 15th -- scoreless. Pujols has been intentionally walked three times in the extra innings to load the bases twice bringing up a relief pitcher to bat for the cards. So far the strategy has worked.

OT: The NESN feed tonight reminded me of another experience with terrible announcers in sports this afternoon. CBC's decided to provide their own coverage of the Bruins playoff series.

They've dulled down the sound of the arena/crowd so much so that all you hear basically is an overly loud announcer who can't pronounce players right, like Zdeno "Chair-a" on the Bruins. (comparable in annoyance to David OR-tiz). And his enthusiam is so dull that if you aren't watching, you don't know when a goal is scored because you don't hear the crowd at all.

I want my NESN. The Bruins announcers on there are ridiculously biased, and hilarious to listen to.

Tonight in the 18th inning, Lopez was the PITCHER and Valdes was the hitter!!! He hit a ground ball to deep short, Brendan Ryan threw wide of first, Valdes ran to second base and was gunned down by Pujols, the throw taken by the third baseman.